To make the orange glace icing, put the icing sugar into a small saucepan.

Add 2 tbsp of the orange juice and beat well with a wooden spoon while warming over very gentle heat. When ready, the icing should thickly coat the spoon before running off. If very thick add the extra juice but it's better to have the icing too thick than too thin, as a thick icing can always be eased over the cake with a hot palette knife, whereas thin icing will run straight down the sides.

When quite cold, ice with orange glacé Icing: to ice: stand the cake on a plate. Pour the icing over the cake, allowing it to run down the side and helping it to spread, if necessary, by tilting or smoothing with a palette knife.

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